IMPLEMENTING POLICIES FOR USING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO COPE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT - CONSTRAINTS ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE IN FRANCE

In France, the consensus about the importance of education and trainin g existed before unemployment started rising. And organizations were a lready providing occupational training. In fact, their existence deter mined how public authorities responded to rising joblessness. This art icle analyzes: the difficulty of implementing effective training polic ies; changes in initial objectives; and the new restraints on various actors, notedly the French Unemployment Office.